List of canals in the United States facts for kids
The following is a list of canals in the United States:
Contents
Transportation canals in operation
- Augusta Canal (Georgia)
- Cal-Sag Channel (Cook County, IL)
- Canaveral Barge Canal (Merritt Island, Florida)
- Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
- Cape May Canal (New Jersey, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
- Cayuga–Seneca Canal (New York)
- Chain of Rocks Canal (Illinois)
- Champlain Canal (New York)
- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Maryland and Delaware, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
- Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, part of the Illinois Waterway
- Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
- Dismal Swamp Canal (Virginia and North Carolina, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
- Duluth Ship Canal (Minnesota)
- Erie Canal (New York)
- Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn, New York)
- Great Lakes Waterway (borders Canada), including the Saint Marys Falls Canal
- Harlem River Ship Canal (New York)
- Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal
- Industrial Canal (Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans)
- Intracoastal Waterway, includes several independent canals
- Galveston and Brazos Canal, see also: Houston Ship Channel
- Corpus Christi Ship Channel
- Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle)
- Louisville and Portland Canal (Kentucky)
- Mississippi River – Gulf Outlet Canal (Louisiana)
- North Shore Channel (Illinois)
- Oswego Canal (New York)
- Point Pleasant Canal (New Jersey, part of the Intracoastal Waterway)
- Port Townsend Ship Canal (Washington)
- Portage Lake Canal (Michigan, part of Keweenaw Waterway)
- Sabine-Neches Waterway (Southeast Texas and Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana)
- Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (California)
- St. Clair Flats Canal
- St. Lawrence Seaway (New York into Canada)
- Shinnecock Canal (New York)
- Soo Locks (Michigan)
- Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal (Wisconsin)
- Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (Mississippi/Alabama)
The United States also constructed the Panama Canal on territory it controlled.
Abandoned transportation canals
- Alexandria Canal (Virginia)
- Allegheny Portage Railroad (Pennsylvania)
- Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Bank's Canal (Virginia)
- Beardstown and Sangamon Canal (Illinois)
- Bellows Falls Canal (Vermont)
- Black River Canal (New York)
- Blackstone Canal (Rhode Island/Massachusetts)
- Brunswick–Altamaha Canal (Glynn County, Georgia)
- Cascade Locks and Canal (Oregon/Washington)
- Celilo Canal (Oregon/Washington)
- Chemung Canal (New York)
- Chenango Canal (New York)
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Maryland/D.C.)
- Clinton–Kalamazoo Canal (Michigan; partially completed)
- Codorus Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Columbia Canal (South Carolina)
- Conestoga Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Colbert Shoals Canal (Alabama. Flooded by Pickwick Lake)
- Conewago Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Cross Florida Barge Canal (partially completed)
- Culpeper Gold Mine Canal (Virginia)
- Cumberland and Oxford Canal (Maine, 1821-1873)
- Deep Run Canal (Virginia)
- Delaware and Hudson Canal (Pennsylvania/New York)
- Delaware and Raritan Canal (New Jersey)
- Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Company (Pennsylvania)
- Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal (partially active)
- Des Moines Rapids Canal (Iowa)
- Enfield Falls Canal (Connecticut)
- Farmington Canal (Connecticut)
- Ficklin's Canal (Virginia)
- Fox–Wisconsin Waterway (Wisconsin) (partially restored)
- Franklin Line (Pennsylvania)
- Fredericksburg Canal (Virginia)
- Genesee Valley Canal (New York)
- Hampshire and Hampden Canal (Massachusetts)
- Hennepin Canal (Illinois)
- Hocking Canal (Ohio)
- Illinois and Michigan Canal (Illinois)
- Indiana Central Canal
- James River and Kanawha Canal (only Virginia portion completed)
- Junction Canal (New York/Pennsylvania)
- Landsford Canal (South Carolina)
- Lehigh Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Leiper Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Little Falls Canal
- Love Canal (New York)
- Main Line of Public Works (Pennsylvania)
- Miami Canal (Florida)
- Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)
- Middlesex Canal (Massachusetts)
- Milan Canal
- Morris Canal (New Jersey)
- Muscle Shoals Canal (Alabama. Drowned under Wilson Lake?)
- Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio)
- Pawtucket Canal (Massachusetts)
- Pennsylvania Canal
- Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal
- Portage Canal (Wisconsin)
- Powell's Canal (Virginia)
- Rapidan Dam Canal of the Rappahannock Navigation (Virginia)
- Sandy and Beaver Canal (Pennsylvania/Ohio)
- Santee Canal (South Carolina)
- Savannah Ogeechee Canal (Georgia)
- Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company (Pennsylvania)
- Schuylkill Navigation (Pennsylvania)
- Skinker's Canal (Virginia)
- Snake Castle Canal (Virginia)
- South Hadley Canal (Massachusetts)
- Spring Valley Canal (Virginia)
- Susquehanna Canal (Maryland)
- Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal (Pennsylvania/Maryland)
- Suwannee Canal (Georgia)
- Taylor's Canal (Virginia)
- Union Canal (Pennsylvania)
- Wabash and Erie Canal (Ohio/Indiana)
- Walhonding Canal (Ohio)
- Warren County Canal (Ohio)
- Washington City Canal (District of Columbia)
- Wheatley's Canal (Virginia)
- Whitewater Canal (Indiana)
- Wiconisco Canal (Pennsylvania)
Irrigation, industrial and drainage canals
Arizona
California
- All-American Canal
- Back Channel
- Beardsley Canal
- Buena Vista Canal
- California Aqueduct
- Calloway Canal
- Carrier Canal
- Coachella Canal
- Colorado River Aqueduct
- Contra Costa Canal
- Corning Canal
- Delta–Mendota Canal
- Eastside Canal
- Folsom South Canal
- Friant-Kern Canal
- Glenn Colusa Canal
- Inter-California Canal
- Kern Island Canal
- Los Angeles Aqueduct
- Madera Canal
- Orland South Canal
- Orland North Canal
- Pioneer Canal
- Putah South Canal
- Stine Canal
- Tehama Colusa Canal
Florida
- Hillsboro Canal
- Miami Canal
- North New River Canal
- St. Lucie Canal
- Tamiami Canal
- West Palm Beach Canal
Hawaii
- Waiolama Canal, Hilo
Idaho
Louisiana
- 17th Street Canal
- Carondelet Canal
- Florida Canal
- London Avenue Canal
- New Orleans Outfall Canals
- Orleans Canal
- Washington-Palmetto Canal
Massachusetts
Michigan
- Edison Sault Power Canal
Nebraska
New Jersey
Texas
Natural inlets called canals
Lynn Canal and Portland Canal in Alaska and Hood Canal in Washington are natural inlets that use the name canal.
Canals by state
These are man made canals in each state that have been given a name and may consist of a narrow irrigation or drainage ditch to a large ship, municipal water and/or irrigation canal. States with extensive agricultural acreage may have many hundred to thousands of canals. USGS Topographical map numbers and latitudes and longitudes of each canal, usable as inputs into Google, Bing, etc. maps, are usually given.
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| State | Number of canals |
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| Alabama | 21 | Montana | 858 | ||
| Alaska | 23 | Nebraska | 209 | ||
| Arizona | 289 | Nevada | 263 | ||
| Arkansas | 6 | New Hampshire | 10 | ||
| California | 2,903 | New Jersey | 41 | ||
| Colorado | 1,888 | New Mexico | 69 | ||
| Connecticut | 8 | New York | 116 | ||
| Delaware | 54 | North Carolina | 151 | ||
| Florida | 245 | North Dakota | 69 | ||
| Georgia | 25 | Ohio | 22 | ||
| Hawaii | 125 | Oklahoma | 9 | ||
| Idaho | 1,540 | Oregon | 661 | ||
| Illinois | 278 | Pennsylvania | 11 | ||
| Indiana | 2,239 | Rhode Island | 3 | ||
| Iowa | 299 | South Carolina | 33 | ||
| Kansas | 27 | South Dakota | 91 | ||
| Kentucky | 62 | Tennessee | 61 | ||
| Louisiana | 45 | Texas | 299 | ||
| Maine | 7 | Utah | 575 | ||
| Maryland | 44 | Vermont | 1 | ||
| Massachusetts | 26 | Virginia | 59 | ||
| Michigan | 1,668 | Washington | 237 | ||
| Minnesota | 1,451 | West Virginia | 2 | ||
| Mississippi | 185 | Wisconsin | 89 | ||
| Missouri | 287 | Wyoming | 1085 | ||
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| Total canals | 18,241 | ||||
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